Inside-door protector and gang board



April 5, 1927.

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Application-filed September is, 1923. Serial No. 662,874.

This invention relates to-inside door protectors-and gang boards for freight cars and the like and has for an object to provide im proved means for protecting the car door against being bulged or hroken open by the .lading and to be permanently afiixed in such position'as to serve as "a gang board when lowered to substantially horizontalposition.

A further object of the invention to provide an inside door protector. with im proved means for holding it in protecting posit-ion, which means may be manually dis protector and gang board, occupying a subengaged to lower the protector to gang board operating position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a gang board having improved means .for co action with an adjacent car to or from which lading is being transferred, adapted to be closed into the car to serve as a protector for the door when occupying a subtogether with mechanical and functional equivalents thereof as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the improved door stantially vertical'plane as seen from the inside of a'car lookingout through the open tion to facilitate the transfer of lading from one car to the other.

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view showing the gang board co-acting with a'platform.

'Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views. Y 7 r 'The improved door protector and gang board, which forms the subject matter of this application, is adapted to be associated with freight cars otsubstantially the usual and ordinary type now in use embodying a floor 10 and door posts 11. It is to be understood, of course, that the present invention is capable of variations of size to correspond to door openings of different dimen- 4 l sions and that therelative sizes of the device and car structure shown is not intended as 6() Theprotector comprises a plate 12, pref-1 any limitation upon'the invention.

erably or" steel or other approved metal, al-

thoughthe present invention is in no way.

imited to the material from which the plate is constructed. 1 y 7 This plate 12 is permanently attached to the car by means of eye bolts 13 which are inserted through the floor of'the car or some equivalent structure. The plate 12'is pro- .vided with perforations 14 operating in conjunction with the eyes of the'eye bolts to form hinges forthe plate so that the said plate may occupy any position within the radius of movement possible by reason of the surrounding structure.

One of the positions of the plate 12 is a vertical position, as shown more particu-' larly at Figures 1 and 3, in which position it serves to protect. the door of the car" which is not shown in the drawings, but whlch it is understood is upon the exterior of the car, hung in any usual and ordinary manner. This vertical position is maintained by means of channelironlatches 15 which are pivoted at 16 to the door posts 11 so that these latches may swing-from a vertical coincidence with the posts .11, in which position they are inoperative, down to embrace the top edge of the plate 12 as shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3, in which position they are operative, to maintain the plate 12 in its vertical position and, therefore, to act as a protector for the door to prevent the laden jamming against the door and doing damage thereto. I y

The plate'l2 also serves as a gangboard by being released from the latches 15 and lowered to a horizontal or approximately horizontal position. One of these positions is shown at Figure 4 wherein the, gang board is employed to "form passage from the car uponwhich it is mounted to an adacent car. This adyacent car is represented by the door posts 11 and floor 10. It

will be notedv that" the plate 12 is provided with cut out notches 17 so that, in casethe two cars are not spotted in exact regis As shown at Figure 5, the gang board comprising the, plate 12 is shown'bearing upon a fixed platform 18, its utility and use in such respects being that of the usual and ordinary gang board.

From the foregoing description of the construction and assembling of the parts or the invention, it is believed that the use and operation will be clearly understood.

that I claim to be new is:

1. The combination with spaced door posts and a plate hinged to stand substantially vertically between the posts, said plate having its upper corners cut out of a latching means for the plate comprising channels pivoted to the posts to swing toward each other to s an the cut out spaces and engage over {UK embrace the upper edge of the plate.

2. The combination with spaced posts and a plate hinged to stand substantialtv vertically between the posts, said plate having the upper end corners cut out oi a latching means for the plate comprising ("11:111- nels pivoted to the posts to stand vcrticallr in inoperative position and swing toward each other to span the cut out corners and engage over and embrace the upper edge of the plate.

In testimony whereof latlixiny signature.

CHARLES E. CANNADAY. 

